Show simple item record

dc.contributor.editorChavannes-Mazel, Claudine A.
dc.contributor.editorIJpelaar, Linda
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-20T10:39:48Z
dc.date.available2023-03-20T10:39:48Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61939
dc.description.abstractHow ‘green’ were people in late antiquity and the Middle Ages? Unlike today, the nature around them was approached with faith, trust and care. The population size was many times smaller than today and human impact on nature not as extreme as it is now. People did not have to worry about issues like deforestation and sustainability. This book is about the knowledge of plants and where that knowledge came from. How did people use earth and plants in ancient times, and what did they know about their nutritional or medicinal properties? From which plants one could make dyes, such as indigo, woad and dyer’s madder? Is it possible to determine that through technical research today? Which plants could be found in a ninth-century monastery garden, and what is the symbolic significance of plants in secular and religious literature? The Green Middle Ages addresses these and other issues, including the earliest herbarium collections, with a leading role for the palaeography and beautiful illuminations from numerous medieval manuscripts kept in Dutch and other Western libraries and museums.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCLAVIS Kunsthistorische Monografieënen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interest::WNP Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interesten_US
dc.subject.othermedieval culture, plants in medieval manuscript, artes, medieval literature, paleography, drawings of plants, the use of plantsen_US
dc.titleThe Green Middle Agesen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Depiction and Use of Plants in the Western World 600-1600en_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5117/9789463726191en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBydd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857aen_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789462262973en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789463726191en_US
oapen.pages344en_US
oapen.place.publicationAmsterdamen_US


Files in this item

Thumbnail

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record